Dover Church youth group plans mission trip to Maine

Friday

Sep 22, 2017 at 12:01 AM

If you would like to find out more, reserve a space on the trip (places are limited), and get the calendar of tool-training and team-building meetings, please come to Kraft Hall at the Dover Church, 17 Springdale Ave., at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24.

Editor’s Note: The following was submitted by the Dover Church.

This coming summer, June 24-30, 2018, the Dover Church Youth Group will take its ministry of service to western Maine. Building upon our past experience with Appalachian Service Project in West Virginia, we will bring our home repair skills to “Mission to the Eastward … reaching the last house on the last road” (www.missionattheeastward.org). This organization is part of the Presbyterian Church and has been serving Mainers since 1954.

We will be specifically working with the North Parish Housing Ministry (northparishhousingministry.weebly.com), soon to be renamed the MATE Housing Ministry, which helps people in the Farmington area stay in their homes who without our help would not be able to. We will roof, build porches and ramps, paint and otherwise do the sorts of projects that we have done in years past for ASP.

If you would like to find out more, reserve a space on the trip (places are limited), and get the calendar of tool-training and team-building meetings, please come to Kraft Hall at the Dover Church, 17 Springdale Ave., at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24. Pizza will be served. Please feel free to invite your friends, as we know you will enjoy the experience so much more with friends.

You do not need to be handy. We’ll teach you everything you need to know. We are always looking for adults who would like to come along, too.

If you have questions, please call the church at 508-785-0957, or email the co-leaders (Max Olmstead, max@thedoverchurch.org, or Sarah Hefter, sarah@thedoverchurch.org). You do not need to be a member of the Dover Church or even religious to join in this experience.